Agent Orange
Veteran Member
You all realize that this thread is about 10 years old. Time to open a new one with better and/or current material and updates.
I think you're going to confuse people by using terms like "ATA". That refers to a type of hard drive connection with 40 or 80 wires in the cable, not a floppy connection with 34.Thanks for the heads up. After reading this I am still not feeling very good about it. I have an Amstrad PC1512 that used a Tandon TM65 2L drive. This is a very old system that came out at the same time as MSDOS 1.0 did. Everyone was designing computers differently. Amstrad made theirs with a MCGA monitor that was similar to CGA but different in some ways. That is a different discussion.
Here is the problem that I think killed my XT drive:
Tandon 525 drive doesn’t like the ATA twist
Here is likely the reason:
1st off it's a XT 360kb ATA 8 bit drive that is slower than the regular 1.2 newer 16 bit drives. The Amstrad can not accept the faster 5.25 drives.